What is your most treasured childhood book?
A book called 'Only Joking Laughed the Lobster'... he wasn't laughing in the end!

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party?
Buttercup the sloth.

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
The sloth sanctuary of Costa Rica!

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
That there's a new challenge every day... and the cake is alright, too!

Jude Evans - Publisher, Little Tiger Press

Describe your job in just three words!
Creating amazing books.

What is your most treasured childhood book?
The BFG. It was the first Roald Dahl I read and I was enchanted by the warmth and wit of his writing, as well as his mercilessly acid and clever observations of human nature. The world of his imagination is so very real, and his characters are incredible and unforgettable.

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party?
For my dream Little Tiger tea party I'd invite a child from every country in the world: from every background, no matter how impoverished or privileged. I'd love for them to share equally the books and the experience, and to share the bond reading aloud together can create; to inspire them before they can learn prejudice, limitation and stereotype. (I'm aware we'd need a lot of translators, and a LOT of cake.)

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
Madagascar - for the extraordinary animals and landscape, and to see the world from a totally contrasting perspective. (But I'd also like someone with me to chase away the 450 different species of spiders...)

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
That I get to work with such talented, funny, clever people, who have incredible commitment and passion for what they do.

Barry Timms - Editorial Director, Little Tiger Press

Describe your job in just three words!
Supervising spectacular storytelling.

What is your most treasured childhood book?
Haunted House by Jan Pienkowski. As a five-year-old I was utterly mesmerized by all those spooky pop-ups and latched onto a copy owned by my friend next door. It was eventually donated to my bookshelf in a bid to keep me quiet.

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party?
Assuming deceased guests wouldn't be turned away, then Muppet-creator Jim Henson would be high on my list. The world of the Muppets overflows with creativity, humour and an unabashed humanity that is so touching - just listen to Kermit sing 'It's Not Easy Being Green'. Jim was a genius.

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
Oh, probably somewhere secretive and shadowy, like exploring an abandoned London Underground station or diving down to some mysterious shipwreck at the bottom of the ocean.

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
Our ideas arrive from all kinds of unexpected directions. And if they're any good, we're a small enough company to bring them rapidly to life.

Maudie Powell-Tuck - Editor, Little Tiger Press

Describe your job in just three words!
Making beautiful books.

What is your most treasured childhood book?
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. The writing is perfect, the illustrations are perfect, and the main character, Chrysanthemum, has an unusual name - just like me.

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party?
Nora Ephron for laughs; Tom Hiddleston for charm; Sarah Bernhardt for eccentricity; and Craig David, so we could re-e-e-e-wind the tea party and have it all over again.

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
Tokyo, the Wild West, Scarborough, Narnia… I’m easy (so long as there are no snakes).

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
It’s a very unique company – family-run with a talented and diverse workforce. I love that the whole team is just as passionate about children’s books as I am, and, above all, I love working with the amazing authors and illustrators on our list.

Georgiana Deutsch - Editorial Assistant, Little Tiger Press

Describe your job in just three words!
Juggling, organising, creating.

What is your most treasured childhood book?
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone wins hands down. I remember reading it into the small hours after being given a copy for Christmas one year. I still have the same battered copy (minus the cover).

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party?
Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, David Attenborough, Rob Brydon and Mary Berry. The perfect group for discussing magical worlds - real and fictional - over truly excellent cake.

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
Hogwarts, definitely. But if I was forced to choose somewhere in the non-fiction world, it would be Japan (all that sushi!).

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
Being part of such a friendly and creative team, and helping to create lots of fabulous books!

Norinda Jones - Senior Designer, Little Tiger Press

Describe your job in just three words!
Challenging But Fun

What is your most treasured childhood book?
Kim by Rudyard Kipling

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party?
The Dalai Lama

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
Galapagos Islands!

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
The lovely, amazingly creative people!

Lyndall Hopcraft - Designer, Little Tiger Press

Describe your job in just three words!
On a good day: Challenging. Rewarding. Demanding.
On a bad day: Demanding. Challenging. Rewarding.

What is your most treasured childhood book?
I don't remember having a favourite in my childhood, but in my life it is definitely Winnie the Pooh. It's so wise, on so many levels.

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party? Genghis Khan, his tales of travel and conquest would be fascinating and I'm sure he would have a wicked sense of humour.

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
Bhutan.

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
The people, it's such a happy bunch. Even in the most stressful times, everyone is fun, reasonable and united in turning out a fantastic product. And, of course, the fact that I'm allowed to work from home nearly all the time.

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
Hogwarts! (There’s a bit of a theme here)

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
Too many things! Seeing the first advance of one of my books - it represents months and months of ideas, layouts, cover concepts, artwork tweaks, typography discussions and sample settings, all culminating into this shiny and new picture book sitting in front of me. Being sent new pieces of art from Illustrators. Designing spines and endpapers and title pages - the little extra bits that really polish a book off.

Ruth Bennett - Commissioning Editor, Stripes

Describe your job in just three words!
Creative, varied, rewarding.

What is your most treasured childhood book?
Gobbolino the Witch's Cat by Ursula Moray Williams

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party?
Judith Kerr

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
Deepest, darkest Peru

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
Spending hours every day thinking about fantastical (and often completely bonkers) imagined worlds.

Stephanie Barrett - Editorial Assistant, Stripes

Describe your job in just three words!
Fun, diverse and gratifying!

What is your most treasured childhood book?
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party?
Matilda.

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
An infinite bookshop.

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
The delightfully imaginative atmosphere, daily opportunities for creativity and inspiring, talented people.

Pip Johnson - Designer, Stripes

Describe your job in just three words!
Fun, absorbing, creative

What is your most treasured childhood book?
Trouble for Trumpets

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party? Maurice Sendak

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
To the Land of Trumpets (in Trouble for Trumpets) and spend a lot of time in Livingstone’s water garden watching fish, listening to lute music…

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
Really great people, ideas sessions (dreaming up ideas for new books), Stripes’ beach hut/writing shed style office on the top floor!

What is your most treasured childhood book?
Anything by Judy Blume, especially Are You There God, it's Me Margaret? How did she manage to understand me so well?!

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party?
George Clooney when he was in ER, so I can just look at him. I could knock us up a spag bol to share. But he can leave the missus at home.

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
Anywhere with my daughter.

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
I enjoy working with like-minded people whose goal it is to create fantastic, inspiring books.

Hayley Maye - Senior Production Controller

Describe your job in just three words!
Schedules, challenges, safety.

What is your most treasured childhood book?
How do you pick just one?! But I guess The Witches by Roald Dahl – the book, the audio tape and the film all scared me silly when I was young, but I loved it to bits.

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party?
Hayao Miyazaki - creator of Studio Ghibli, so I could gush about how I love his films, Michael Palin – my favourite Python who could provide some jokes and travel stories, Felicia Day – because she seems like good fun and likes board games. And of course, my husband, because he’s a fantastic cook!

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
Somewhere to get a complete culture change– Malaysia or Thailand for good food and weather, perhaps Japan for pure craziness and beautiful countryside.

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
Our lovely production team, of course ☺

What is your most treasured childhood book?
Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party?
Mahatma Gandhi, Barack Obama and just to lighten the mood Robert De Niro

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
I would love to go New Zealand with my Wife and 2 daughters and explore Lake Taupo at some point I would probably sneak off to watch the cricket…..

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
Little Tiger is our family business and to be part of this is great. Seeing the company grow from my Uncles garage to a successful office in Hammersmith. I love working with the production team and look forward to our annual summer picnic! My monthly trip to Costco can also be very adventurous..

Georgina Russell - Production Controller

Describe your job in just three words:
Planning, printing and problems!

If you could invited anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party?:
My ideal, if not slightly bizarre combination of guests would be Justin Bieber, Jack Whitehall, a pack of sausage dogs and Gizzi Erskine to help with the cooking!

Where would you most like to go on an adventure:
Either Japan or China, I'm a huge foodie and would love to go on a gastronomic adventure!

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?:
The people! They are such a fabulous bunch and make coming to work a lovely place to be.

Samantha Sweeney - Editorial Director, Bespoke

Describe your job in just three words!
(Mostly) controlled chaos.

What is your most treasured childhood book?
The Hamlyn Book of Kings and Queens of Great Britain. I can still pretty much reel off rulers back to 1300-and-something. Good pub quiz skill. Childhood copy now old and tatty, like its owner.

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party?
Elvis Presley. Not because I think he'd have anything earth-shattering to say about children's books, but he definitely knows how to throw a party. And I'm sure he'd like tea and cakes.

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
South America, especially Brazil and Argentina, including the Fla-Flu local derby in Rio at the Maracana stadium and the superclasico match between Boca Juniors and River Plate at the Bombanera in Buenos Aires.

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
Working with lots of fun, creative people who love books and have quirky senses of humour.

Kate Ware – Senior Designer, Bespoke

Describe your job in just three words!
Manic, funny, creative.

What is your most treasured childhood book?
Anything by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Questin Blake - The Enormous Crocodile was one of my faves!

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party?
Beatrix Potter.

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
Romania or Bulgaria - the mountainous countryside bits.

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
The people, the fun projects, the fact that I can bring my pug Pickle to work when I need to.

Agathe Hiron - Junior Designer, Bespoke

Describe your job in just three words!
Creating fun stuff

What is your most treasured childhood book?
All the Tintin comic books but especially Tintin in Tibet.

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party?
Gandalf

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
Tibet like Tintin

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
Always working on a lot of fun projects so everyday at work is different!

Danielle McLean - Editor Bespoke

Describe your job in just three words!
Creative, exciting and fun!

What is your most treasured childhood book?
The Secret Garden. I’ve been searching for secret gardens ever since.

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party?
Oliver Jeffers and Jacqueline Wilson.

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
The Palace of Versailles. It’s one of my favourite places and I’d love to be able to explore it with no restrictions!

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
Creating amazing books and laughing a lot along the way.

Aude Lavielle - Rights Director

Describe your job in just three words!
Speaking foreign languages, being in touch with amazing people round the world and, errr, selling rights to fantastic books!

What is your most treasured childhood book?
A very sad French family saga in the 19th century I've forgotten the title of!

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party?
Barack Obama, Louis de Bernières, Iggy Pop and Jack White

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
In the Brazilian Amazon forest

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
After 17 years here, I still love the friendly and easygoing atmosphere of this company.

David Bucknor - Group Sales Director

Describe your job in just three words!
Fun, problem solving.

What is your most treasured childhood book?
The Jungle Book, I just imagined I was Mowgli: fearless, carefree, determined and resourceful.

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party?
Barack Obama - I think he would be fun,

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
The Delta Quadrant (home of the Borg) or perhaps Vietnam in the real world

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
Great people, great books and mostly great fun.

Nik Bhatia - UK & Export Sales

Describe your job in just three words!
Selling books (quite simple!)

What is your most treasured childhood book?
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (still awesome today)

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
Australia or New Zealand for sure!

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
The feeling of knowing you work for a very respected company that produce some amazing books & gifts!

Paola Gonella - Sales Admin Assistant

Describe your job in just three words!
Lots of spreadsheets!

What is your most treasured childhood book?
It’s called ‘Il Grande Libro di Camilla’. It was published in 1984 by a tiny Italian publishing house that has since closed down, and has now been out of print for 15 years. I despaired when I lost my copy, but a few months ago I luckily found one on Ebay and bought it immediately. That was the last copy available in the world! If you Google the title now, you will get no results - that’s how rare it is!

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?The Lord of the Rings film trilogy is my absolute favourite, so definitely New Zealand. And Japan, cos I grew up watching loads of anime and reading manga

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
The pace, the people, and the fact that there’s always sweet treats in the office!

Lauren Ace - Brand Director

Describe your job in just three words!
Talking, tweeting, touting.

What is your most treasured childhood book?
Hard to pick just one, but my copy of Paddington Goes to Town gifted to me by Terrace Road Primary School library because I borrowed it so many times, is pretty special. If I’m feeling sad, reading a bit of Paddington still cheers me up.

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party?
Nigella Lawson - to help me prepare the food, Lauren Laverne - to provide the soundtrack, Malala Yousafzai - to regale us with her amazing wisdom, Amy Poehler - because given the chance I would like to be anywhere Amy is. That’ll do, I think we’d have a lovely time setting the world to rights.

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
Somewhere off the beaten track, where not many people have been - a jungle, a desert, an island, or a mountain.

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
I love working for a family company which has been built from the ground up. I love the fact that everyone’s voice is listened to and great ideas can come from anywhere in the business. I love working with so many talented authors and illustrators. I love how diverse the team at Little Tiger is, that’s very rare in publishing.

Charlie Morris – Publicity & Marketing Executive

Describe your job in just three words!
Plotting & signal boosting.

What is your most treasured childhood book?
A copy of Sleeping Beauty that has a dedication in my Grandma’s handwriting and Princess Smartypants signed by Babette Cole (girl after my own heart!)

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party?
Emma Watson, so we can discuss feminism, books and magic. Nadiya Hussain to bring amazing cakes and read a story. Book bloggers to spread the word!

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
Neuschwanstein Castle because it looks like it fell out of a fairytale, riding a camel to see the pyramids in Egypt, or pottering around Diagon Alley.

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
Working with a small but awesome team to spread the word far and wide about our fantastic books. Plus pondering purrrfect puns and sharing tiger gifs. They're grrrrreat!

Beth Ferguson - Publicity & Marketing Executive

Describe your job in just three words!
Social, collaborative juggling!

What is your most treasured childhood book?
Hmm…I’m going to cheat and pick two. Most treasured picture book would be The Jolly Postman and Other People’s Letters by Allan Ahlberg and Janet Ahlberg, I was fascinated by all the pull out bits. Another treasured book would be The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy, Mildred Huble was (and still is) my hero!

If you could invite anyone in the world, who would attend your dream Little Tiger tea party?
I would invite Mary Berry as she can bring the cake and we’d avoid any soggy bottoms. The legendary Dame Maggie Smith, Tay-Tay (aka Taylor Swift) as I think she’s an incredible role model for young girls and Jennifer Lawrence for the bants #SquadGoals

Where would you most like to go on an adventure?
Hogwarts or Australia

What do you love most about working at Little Tiger?
Building relationships with our fabulous authors and illustrators and the ability to get my creative juices flowing on a daily basis whilst working with amazing people.